Re: [android-developers] Best practice for downloading a file - URLConnection, HttpClient, Intent, ...

2010-03-11 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, westmeadboy wrote: > If an app needs to download some critical data (without the data it > cannot function) of several MB, what is the best practice? > How much is "several" MB? While you should definitely try to keep the app size down, a few megs isn't going to b

[android-developers] Best practice for downloading a file - URLConnection, HttpClient, Intent, ...

2010-03-11 Thread westmeadboy
If an app needs to download some critical data (without the data it cannot function) of several MB, what is the best practice? The app would start, a prompt would be shown to confirm download, download would commence, and the user would be prevented from going further until the download successful